[net.micro.amiga] 1) Developers' Meeting, 2) Printers, 3) Legal Issues

8239048%wwu.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA (01/14/86)

From: Petersen@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA, Julie K <8239048%wwu.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA>

1)  Pacific Amiga Users Group (suggestions for a name invited)

    We'll be holding our first developers' meeting on
    January 22nd (Wednesday 7:30-9:30).  This is for
    heavy-duty programming information.  
         10851 Shellbridge Way, Richmond, B.C.
         273-2243.  Located just southeast of
         the Oak Street bridge in the Airport
         Executive Park, off Shell Road.

2)  Hooking up printers to the Amiga
    I have tried dumping a Deluxe Paint file to an
    HP LaserJet printer.  Overall the dump wasn't
    too bad, although somewhat 'grainy' in appear-
    ance, since the awesome resolution of the HP
    isn't matched by screen resolution.  I think
    pretty decent black and white reproductions
    could be had by experimenting with the different
    colors to see which provides the best approxi-
    mation of individual tones.  The blacks are good,
    the other colors come out with the appearance
    of an embroidery pattern (closest analogy I can
    think of).  Anyone working on a good text pro-
    cessor to take advantage of the features of the
    LaserJet?  Better yet, I'd like to see someone
    marry the Amiga with the LaserWriter--my abso-
    lute favorite printer (PostScript being the main
    reason).

3)  Legal Issues

    Could someone please enlighten me on legal issues
    related to using and marketing files developed with
    a copyright program?  Two examples:  suppose you had
    a commercial wordprocessor and you decided to create
    (heaven forbid) 'form' letters, e.g. to grandma, to
    your banker, to your best friends, etc. for people to
    use as templates to save time and then sold the product
    for say $9.95 per disk.  Example 2:  people are using
    MacPaint to create 'clip art' and marketing them to
    users of MacPaint.  The question:  do the letter or
    clip-art creators have a legal obligation (monetary)
    to the creators of the word-processing or paint pro-
    gram which they are using as a tool to create the
    commercial product, in this context?  I am asking
    because some of the software being developed for the
    Amiga seems to lend itself to this type of applica-
    tion and the software-hungry public and the sales of
    the Amiga might benefit if products of this kind were
    available to fill this temporary gap.

tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) (01/16/86)

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Just curious...

	How come the notices for the New Jersey Amiga Users Group were
	posted from California, and the notice for the Pacific group
	are being posted from New Jersey?  Isn't something backwards
	here? :-)
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Tim Smith       sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim